Workers

The catalog 'Fortschritt als Versprechen' (Progress as promise. Industrial photography in divided Germany) places commissioned works in the context of their contemporary use for the first time. The focus is on the concepts linked in East and West Germany.

In 'The Transported of Kwandebele' David GOLDBLATT documents journeys by workers as a metaphor for their arduous struggle toward freedom. In unsentimental or artifical images, the grim determination of the people to survive emerges in almost heroic terms.

The images taken during the 'Great Depression' in the USA in the out-of-print book 'When Innovation Was King' by Lewis HINE and the message they contain are particularly relevant today in the face of high unemployment in a rapidly changing global economy.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 13 x 16,5 x 2 cm., 166 pp., b/w ills., English, Ltd. to 20 copies

This self published photo book, 'Human' by Gábor KUDÁSZ, shows brick-making workers, photographed between 2014-2016 in Eastern Europe. But the workers, depicted as in a socialist picture book, behave in an unusual way. They begin to alienate their product

The out-of-print and hard-to-find volume 'In Search of Dignity and Justice. The untold story of Conservancy Workers in Mumbai' by Sudharak OLWE shows the fate of workers in Bombay. It contains fourty-six mostly full-paged b/w images and six pages of text.

'Pittsburgh Grease Plant 1944/46' contains previously unpublished photographs by Gordon PARKS, focusing for the first time on his work for the Standard Oil Company, an important chapter before his groundbreaking career as a photographer for Life Magazine.

'Zeitenwende. Die Fischer vom Holm in Schleswig an der Schlei' by Holger RÜDEL tells of the craft of fishing on the Schlei and the current challenges facing professional fishermen in times of climate change, eutrophication and cormorant infestation.